Screening and talk with Mia Yu (Beijing-based artist, curator, researcher)
//October 24th, 2024
//5:30 PM
//GEM Lab, FB 630.15
//1250 rue Guy
Moderated by Weixian Pan (Queen's University)
For the past three years, artist and curator Mia Yu has been researching about China’s disrupted landscape of fossil fuel extraction and its complex histories. She is currently developing a multi-faceted project titled “Tales of Speculative Energies” that includes an on-going film series (“Fossil Fuel Trilogy”), a performance series (“Let Me Tell You a Story About Sediments”), workshops ("A New Glossary") and exhibitions. This project, as a whole, seeks to question what energy means in an era of climate change and energy transition. Mia Yu’s two recent films Eme Cosmos and Amber narrate planetary territories related to Fushun, the largest site of fossil fuel extraction in Asia. By tracing a list of key words developed in the research process and screening her latest films, Mia Yu will show us the possible ways of imagining speculative energy through various modes of cosmotectics and mythology.
Mia Yu is an artist, curator and researcher based in Beijing. Her recent research examines China’s disrupted landscape of fossil fuel extraction and its complex histories. Working as a filmmaker, story-teller, performer, writer and exhibition maker, Mia Yu questions what energy means to us in an era of climate change, and tries to re-imagine energy through various modes of cosmotectics and mythology. As a curator, Mia Yu has curated exhibitions and projects at Goethe Institut, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Times Museum, Inside-Out Museum, OCAT Biennale, Arles International Photo Festival, Pro Helvetia and Tang Contemporary Art. She was the winner of the Yishu Critical Writing Award in 2018 and the winner of China Contemporary Art Awards (Now the Sigg Art Prize) in 2015.
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